Sarajevo City Hall: Military Postcard from 1903

Great b/w vintage postcard depicting the Sarajevo City Hall.
Sent as Military Postcard from Sarajevo to Bohemia.
k. und. K. Military Post Sarajevo 1903 – cancellation.
Fine condition.

The Austria-Hungarian period was one of great development for the city as the Western power brought its new acquisition up to the standards of the Victorian age. Various factories and other buildings were built at this time, and a large number of institutions were both Westernized and modernized. For the first time in history, Sarajevo's population began writing in Latin script.

In the event that triggered World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 by a self declared Yugoslav, Gavrilo Princip. In the ensuing war, however, most of the Balkan offensives occurred near Belgrade, and Sarajevo largely escaped damage and destruction during the war.